Recent Changes to the Wisconsin Electronic Reader
December 3, 1998:
- Added material on the great Peshtigo fire of 1871.
- The Great Peshtigo Fire: An Eyewitness Account by Peter Pernin
- The First Newspaper Story of the Great Peshtigo Fire and
- The Peshtigo Fire gallery
- Added list of Recent Changes to the Wisconsin Electronic Reader
October 24, 2017:
- Corrected a small but significant transcription error in Thomas Commuck's Sketch of the Brothertown Indians (Thanks to Megan for noting this)
- Corrected a misidentification of Charles Van Hise's brother and sister-in-law (Thanks to Dino V. for catching this, despite the family resemblance!)
- Corrected the identification of Van Hise and Chamberlin in this group photo on Bascom Hill (Thanks to Stu L. for bringing this to our attention)
- Adjusted the Van Hise Gallery, and placed an alternate image into the Future of Man in America story in light of the above corrections
- Corrected erroneous dates (David H. and Paul K. both pointed these out) and various other transcription errors in the Wau-Bun Appendix
- Adjusted two main background images to better handle larger display sizes and higher resolutions
- Updated names and links on the Feedback page to reflect current evolution of the UW Digital Library
- Updated obsolete links on the Contents, About, and Splash pages
- Updated obsolete links on this page and on The Great Peshtigo Fire pages to the Wisconsin Historical Society's new edition of that work.
- Corrected an erroneous date in the Cordelia Harvey bio. (Thanks to Joann D. for spotting this)
- Corrected some faulty links on the Feedback page. (Thanks to Ted C. of the Photoart House)
- Added missing images of Civil War Generals Grant and Sheridan
- Expanded the citation for The Great Peshtigo Fire and added it, along with an announcement of the Wisconsin Historical Society's new edition, to each page of that story.
- Updated or deleted obsolete links on the splash page, main contents page, and the list of acknowledgements.
- Repaired the style sheet link from the first page of the Great Peshtigo Fire newspaper account
- Repaired links from the Chippewa Petition to the President of the United States Pictographs (A, B, C & D) to the related descriptions (A, B, C & D)
- Cleaned up confusion related to a spurious image reference in the University Athletics Gallery
- Corrected ownership information for A Trip Through Wisconsin's New State Capitol images
- Added some empty test pages to try to assess the impact of robot activity on our statistics
- Updated email address for feedback
- Corrected some faulty links in the Railroad Gallery. (Thanks to John W. for spotting these)
- Corrected an image caption that mistakenly had Lucius Fairchild in the 1st Wisconsin Infantry instead of the 2nd. (Thanks to James J.)
- Enhanced navigation options for the Galleries list
- Repaired the color of the section link for John Muir's The Ploughboy. (Did I say these were details?)